The re-screening of the Japanese pure love movie "Love Letter" has brought this long-hidden movie back to the attention of fans.
Compared with most of the audience's regrets about young couples and the feelings of their first love, what moved me the most was an old man. Now, let's briefly talk about these main characters.
Parents of the male Fujii tree. According to Japanese funerary customs, the parents of the male Fujii Tree held a three-time taboo for him (that is, the second anniversary of his death), inviting relatives and friends and the former friends of the male Fujii Tree, including his fiancée Hiroko. This custom is uncommon in the country, especially for a young man who dies prematurely. Father had come out of his grief and was ready to spend the night drinking with friends and family. And the mother will also show her thoughts and sadness.
Hiroko Watanabe. Hiroko Watanabe's affection is admirable. Two years after her fiancé's death, her love for the male Fujii tree has not faded, she participated in the male Fujii tree's three taboos, grief at the same time, saw the fiancé Fujii tree middle school residence address, suddenly sent a letter, and strangely, actually received a reply signed Fujii tree.
After many letter exchanges and field visits, fujii tree who knew that the reply was a girl, and fujii tree and a male fujii tree were middle school classmates. Thoughts and curiosity force Hiroko to ask the female Fujii about the male Fujii tree, and the female Fujii tree is forced to open the memories of her youth. In the end, when Hiroko learned that the male Fujii tree liked herself because she looked like the female Fujii tree, she was sad and tearful, no, maybe not like, because the male Fujii tree took the ring and did not propose to Hiroko, but Hiroko took the initiative to propose.
At the end, Hiroko, led by Akiba, comes to the mountain where the Otoi tree fell, and in the face of the snow-capped peak, she shouts forcefully, "Are you okay?" I am fine! ..."It's thoughts, it's blame, it's liberation. Hiroko is the most distressing, and thankfully, eventually has the company of autumn leaves.
Autumn leaves. Akiba fell in love with Hiroko before the male Fujii tree. After the unexpected death of the male Fujii tree, Akiba became Hiroko's boyfriend and is now a fiancé. But Hiroko is still obsessed with her ex-fiancé. Akiba patiently accompanies Hiroko to Otaru City to trace the footsteps of the male Fujii tree, and accompanies Hiroko to the mountain to untie the knot that she has not been able to put down for many years. This is true love.
Female Fujii tree. After his father died of pneumonia caused by a serious cold, he lived in the old mansion with his mother and grandfather. She is frail and sickly, easily catches colds, hides illness and avoids medical treatment, and does not know the truth that "taking good care of herself is the truest love for her family". In correspondence with Hiroko Watanabe, the youth of the middle school era gradually unfolds, and the clues of the cards in the previous teacher and the library reveal the male Fujii tree's feelings for her, however, it is too late, and this can be remembered, but it is already confused at the time.
Mother of the female Fujii tree. It felt like a qualified mother, although her husband died early, she did not remarry, and she was dependent on her father-in-law and daughter. However, knowing that her husband died of pneumonia caused by a serious cold, he still did not strictly discipline his daughter, and I believe that if she became a second mother, she would personally accompany her daughter to the hospital to see a doctor.
Male Fujii tree. The invisible male protagonist of the play. When he was a teenager, although he was cold to the female Fujii tree on the surface and showed love in the form of mischief, he liked it very much in his heart, and even later fell in love with Hiroko at first sight because of the appearance of the female Fujii tree. In fact, the love is still the female Fujii tree. Although the male Fujii tree went to the female Fujii tree to confess before leaving Otaru City, but happened to meet the female Fujii tree's father who had just finished the funeral, this inappropriate place, did not say the confession, but put a secret love letter into the book and returned it to the female Fujii tree. And what he is most sorry for is Hiroko, who actually regards Hiroko as a substitute, which I am very disapproving of. Since you like the female Fujii tree, everyone is an adult, you can go back to her, why find a substitute?
Grandpa of the female Fujii tree. This is the person who touched me the most in the whole movie, the love of young people did not make me cry, but this old man made me deeply appreciate love. The old man is 75 years old, and when he appears, he appears in the image of an old fool, and he insists on living in the old house and does not move. Later, when I met Akiba and Hiroko who came to visit, they appeared very enthusiastically and comically, and this action and the tone of this speech reminded me of the old turtle in the "Fish Beauty" unit of "Bao Qingtian". And in the end, the female Fujii tree is critically ill, due to the blizzard, the ambulance will take 1 hour to arrive, the grandfather calmly said "40 minutes, not 38 minutes to carry the female Fujii tree to the hospital, not to walk, is to run", instantly, tears flowed. He persuaded his mother to carry the female Fujii tree and brave the blizzard to run to the hospital, falling down many times on the road and losing his strength, but in the end, he arrived at the hospital in time, saving the life of the female Fujii tree, and did not let the history of his son's death repeat itself. This kind of protection of the good family is the most touching.
Finally, I would like to mention that the cinematography of this film makes the snow scene of the small town in northern Japan too beautiful.
Love in youth, love in youth, love for family...
Great movies have always been all-encompassing.